“All options, including the Irish, are open at this stage.”
There’s a suspected car bomb incident in London this morning. The device in question has been made safe. There was no explosion, and no injuries. For this I am relieved.
The BBC News website quotes an “intelligence source” here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6252276.stm, saying “All options, including the Irish, are open at this stage” in reference to who might be responsible for the suspected terror attack.
This shouldn’t NEED to be said, but with such a sloppy turn of phrase chosen by this “intelligence source” and then quoted by the BBC, I’d like to point out that the term “Irish” refers to the population of Ireland as a whole: old, young, male, female, north and south, catholic and protestant, muslim, jew and atheist alike. It’s a rather large brush that has been used to paint the canvas - and a bloody insult. I’m not impressed.
Trinity
My sentiments exactly!
But you will notice that they changed the wording ever so slightly “Intelligence sources said they were keeping an open mind on who was responsible for the car bomb”. It was reported in breakingnews.ie as well
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/mhkfgbsnkfid/
and again slightly changed in a later report. I’m surprised that there wasn’t a bigger hullabaloo about it to be honest. It was the first thing I noticed this am.